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"The First Wetbacks Were Jesus, Mary, and Joseph" - the Cardinal of Guatamala City
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mschrank
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No, I was referring to the neocatecuminal way.
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manualman
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Perhaps, but at any time during the Arian crisis you could find a bishop who condemned the errors of Arius. Got one who condemns these folks? One?
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Walking_Home
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I believe there was one bishop in England that banned the Neocatechumenal activities in his diocese some years back. More than likely there are more—but have not been as forthcoming in pointing out the errors of the Neocatechumenal Way.
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Maui71
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Part of the Immigration Problem is the word Illegal. The modern vernacular for illegal usually implies a felony or a crime punishable by incarceration. An “illegal” immigrant is a person that is not a citizen or legal resident of the United States that overstayed their visa or entered the country without a visa, a misdemeanor offense like a traffic ticket. It is not a felony or criminal.
But the press and anti-immigration groups make the word illegal out to be criminal and to criminalize illegal immigrants. That would be the same as criminalizing a speeder or someone who overstayed their parking meter time limit.
That being said the illegal immigrant is not committing a crime but an infraction like most people do daily when they take a rolling stop sign or cross over double yellow lines to make a left turn.
The solution is to allow work permits to anyone that wants to work in the US and will get finger printed and pass an Interpol background and country of origin background check. These permits are for a 2 year period renewable indefinitely (with revocation clauses about felony crimes or other such items) but do not lead to citizenship. That should be a separate track with separate reasonable requirements. The employer will not be subject to match SS or Medicare only the employee pays their share but will not be eligible for either. The employer should not be subject to Federal Unemployment tax because the individual will not be eligible for that either nor should they be eligible for State Unemployment Benefits. The price you pay for coming to work here. This is work permit visa is not like an L-1 or other such visa. This is for the person that wants to come here for a few years save money to go back to their country or help their family out in their country. Simple, for most of the “illegal” immigrants here after enacting this visa program then employers should be severely fined for hiring illegals. Anyone without a criminal background can no come and work. It is not a very attractive visa for the long-term minded immigrant they will have to go the other visa route.
We have a manual labor shortage in this country. Those states that enacted the employer penalty laws are going to find their cost of living increase and they are going to lose more business to the states that do not have that. Plus those jobs that most natural born citizen won’t take will lay empty for a very long time. It will not happen overnight as the primary economic effect is not usually seen for about a year and the secondary and tertiary effects take up to 2-3 years to begin to materialize.
The part the bothers me those is the clear hate you can see in the anti-immigration groups. What is funny about that is that unless you are a or part native American Indian (most South and Central Americans are) you are a descendant of an immigrant. What an irony.
But the press and anti-immigration groups make the word illegal out to be criminal and to criminalize illegal immigrants. That would be the same as criminalizing a speeder or someone who overstayed their parking meter time limit.
That being said the illegal immigrant is not committing a crime but an infraction like most people do daily when they take a rolling stop sign or cross over double yellow lines to make a left turn.
The solution is to allow work permits to anyone that wants to work in the US and will get finger printed and pass an Interpol background and country of origin background check. These permits are for a 2 year period renewable indefinitely (with revocation clauses about felony crimes or other such items) but do not lead to citizenship. That should be a separate track with separate reasonable requirements. The employer will not be subject to match SS or Medicare only the employee pays their share but will not be eligible for either. The employer should not be subject to Federal Unemployment tax because the individual will not be eligible for that either nor should they be eligible for State Unemployment Benefits. The price you pay for coming to work here. This is work permit visa is not like an L-1 or other such visa. This is for the person that wants to come here for a few years save money to go back to their country or help their family out in their country. Simple, for most of the “illegal” immigrants here after enacting this visa program then employers should be severely fined for hiring illegals. Anyone without a criminal background can no come and work. It is not a very attractive visa for the long-term minded immigrant they will have to go the other visa route.
We have a manual labor shortage in this country. Those states that enacted the employer penalty laws are going to find their cost of living increase and they are going to lose more business to the states that do not have that. Plus those jobs that most natural born citizen won’t take will lay empty for a very long time. It will not happen overnight as the primary economic effect is not usually seen for about a year and the secondary and tertiary effects take up to 2-3 years to begin to materialize.
The part the bothers me those is the clear hate you can see in the anti-immigration groups. What is funny about that is that unless you are a or part native American Indian (most South and Central Americans are) you are a descendant of an immigrant. What an irony.
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Godi
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Most Catholics are against illegal immigrants just as they despise thiefs, liars and cheats. The CC is trying to fill up the pews. That is why the Bishops are not emphasizing that, and they still flock to Communion.
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